APUSH Ch 7 American Revolution Review

Which of the following contributed most to the American Victory in the Revolution?

• French military and financial assistance

• The failure of Loyalists to participate in military action

• A major American military victory at Valley Forge

• Support the French Canadians

• The British failure to capture Philadelphia

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By the time of the American Revolution, most patriots had come to believe that, in republican government, sovereignty was located in

• the people

• Parliament

• state governments

• factions

• a centralized government

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Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense attacked which of the following?

• France for its failure to support the colonial war effort

• Parliament for its continued opposition to the king of England

• Politicians who believed a small island could not effectively rule a distant continent

• The king of England and the principle of monarchy

• The authors of the Declaration of Independence

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The Declaration of Independence did all of the following EXCEPT

• appeal to the philosophy of natural rights

• call for the abolition of the slave trade

• appeal to the sympathies if the English people

• criticize the provisions of the Quebec Act of 1774

• accuse George III of tyranny

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During the War for Independence, the principal reason the American government sought diplomatic recognition from foreign powers was to

• rally all the states behind a common cause

• convince the British of the justice of the American cause

• facilitate the purchase of arms and borrowing of money from other nations

• allow Von Steuben, Lafayette, and other Europeans to join the American army

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The First Continental Congress called for the Continental Association to

• identify Loyalists

• gather military supplies

• spy on British troop movements

• enforce an economic boycott of British goods

• organize protests against new British taxes

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France negotiated a treaty of alliance with the new American nation in 1778 following

• the defeat of the British General Burgoyne at Saratoga

• American naval victories on the Great Lakes

• the dispatch of an American peace mission to Britain

• an ultimatum by American diplomats

• a personal plea by George Washington

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France decided to aid the North American colonies in their war for independence primarily because France

• was working to establish democratic rule in European countries

• saw the war as an opportunity to end the international slave trade

• wanted to weaken the British empire

• was allied with Spain, which had already joined the colonists’ cause

• had long been the primary trading partner of the North American colonies

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Paine’s argument “that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still” was most likely in reference to which of the following situations?

• The hope that religious dissenters would agree to join the Church of England

• The challenges faced by settlers who moved west of the Appalachian Mountains

• The belief among colonists that they had earned a right to greater liberty from Britain

• The concern that increased debt following the Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War) would decrease the value of American goods

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Which of the following historical situations most directly shaped Paine’s argument that Britain’s policies were economically harming its colonies?

• Increased immigration to the Americas

• Continued enforcement of mercantilism

• Limitations on indentured servitude

• Demand for raw materials

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